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With the advent of Spring, developers now have, for the first time, a truly lightweight alternative to EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans). Using Spring, you can take advantage of many of the features offered ...

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Any web based application can be built on the concept of a multi-tier, MVC model. For better maintainability, applications should be designed in such a way that the Presentation Layer and the Business ...

One of the worst-kept secrets surrounding J2EE is the sheer ineffectiveness of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) as an enterprise business-object framework. Bloated, over-designed, difficult to test, slow to ...

Oracle has moved its TopLink Java persistence API set into the Eclipse Foundation community, the first time Oracle has overseen a runtime project with Eclipse-- and an indication that Oracle's Java ...